My poems, "The Night It Came and Swallowed Us Whole", "The Dead Are Always With Us", and "Assassin", have been published in the new issue of RAVE CAGE. Delighted to be featured in this cool 'zine once again! 🎃

#poetry #darkpoetry #RavenCage #writingcommunity

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#Inktober Challenge (horror poetry edition)

Day 2: Relic 💍

#inktober2026 #darkpoetry #halloween #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #horrorsky #horror #horrorwriting

My #poem, published in Slash #Horror Mag for their issue theme 'feast', explores the violation of bodies through butchery #HorrorCommunity #DarkPoetry #vsshorror #PoetrySky
www.theslashmedia.com/piggy-pink-b...

Huge thanks to Dark Poets Club for this honour.

Delighted to be on this list alongside other excellent poets such as @carmellapoetry.bsky.social and Ella B. Winters

#darkpoetsociety #DarkPoetsPrize #darkpoetry

Turgescent Twilight by Shikhandin
https://books2read.com/twilight-shikhandin

Where twilight deepens, the human soul unravels—revealing beauty, terror, and truth in equal measure.

#DARKPOETRY #SPECULATIVEPOETRY #MYTHICPOETRY #poetrycommunity #readingcommunity #bookbloggers #bookblast #booksky 🌎📚💙

OCTOBER Poetry Prompt Challenge! (final for 2026)

see rules post here:
https://www.patreon.com/TheRavensQuothPress  

(the image is the prompt)

#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #darkpoetry #poetryprompt #patreonpoetry #booksky 🌎📚💙

in the pursuit of whimsy
everyone has fallen for its spell,
the shadows don't disappear
yet blind eyes remain turned

#darkacademia #melancholy #originalpoetry #shortpoetry #whimsy #sad #dark #darkpoetry #writing

The shadow knows first
what tomorrow hasn't said
the heart starts to shake
#DarkHaiku #DarkPoetry #Intuition #InnerWorld #Poetry

Eyes know what words hide
before the darkness arrives
silence on the skin
#DarkHaiku #DarkPoetry #UnspokenWords #SensitiveSoul #Poetry

I feel far too much
and no one hears the trembling
beneath quiet peace
#DarkHaiku #EmotionalDepth #DarkPoetry #InnerStruggles #Poetry

A thousand faces
one forgotten self remains
beneath the skin
#DarkHaiku #Identity #DarkPoetry #InnerSelf #PoetryCommunity

The soul fell asleep
while the world kept moving on
without looking back
#DarkHaiku #DarkPoetry #LostSelf #Melancholy #Poetry

The mask slowly falls
beneath it, silence remains
no one knew that face
#DarkHaiku #DarkPoetry #Masking #HiddenSelf #Poetry

What once disappeared
returns softly through the fog
I awaken now
#DarkHaiku #Awakening #DarkPoetry #HealingJourney #Poetry

Even too much light
can hurt eyes that learned to hide
when seeing was pain
#DarkHaiku #DarkPoetry #SensitiveSoul #InnerPain #Poetry

The night knows the signs
before the cold reaches skin
no one speaks a word
#DarkHaiku #DarkPoetry #Intuition #NightPoetry #Poetry

A flower of thorns
keeps growing through every wound
still burning inside
#DarkHaiku #DarkPoetry #Resilience #GothicPoetry #Poetry

A wounded butterfly
slowly opens its dark wings
after winter ends
#DarkHaiku #DarkPoetry #Rebirth #Healing #GothicPoetry

I no longer run
when the darkness calls my name
I remain awake
#DarkHaiku #DarkPoetry #SelfAcceptance #InnerStrength #Poetry

Guilt became the executioner I learned to obey,and every “I must” buried another piece of me away.
#DarkPoetry #GothicWriting #EmotionalPoetry #InnerPain #PoetistaOscura